Planet.com: 'We scan the whole world, every day' (video)

'We scan the whole world, every day'

The FT.com's innovations editor John Thornhill investigates how privately held Planet Labs (domain: planet.com) uses a fleet of tiny satellites to image every inch of the globe, and update it every 24 hours. Financial Times (ft.com) video above published Feb 14, 2018.

Planet: See Change. Change the World.

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A Map of Internet Censorship Around the World (infographic)

A Map of Internet Censorship Around the World (infographic):

Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist.com

More information including reference sources: https://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2017/02/27/internet-censorship/

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One World, One Internet? IGF 2017 Preparations: China Has Arrived!

IGF 2017 Second Open Consultations & MAG Meeting | Internet Governance Forum (IGF) | intgovforum.org: The second Open Consultations and Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) meeting in preparation for IGF 2017 (Geneva, Switzerland, 18-21 December), is meeting 12-14 June at the headquarters of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU.int), in Geneva, Switzerland. So far, one thing is clear: CHINA Has Arrived--selected tweets from @sgdickinson--

2nd day of 2nd set of #IGF2017 prep mtgs now underway. Agenda, documents and more info at: https://t.co/49KCaJ6PZt

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 @LynnStAmour: workshop selection 2 follow similar process to past years - top-scored props mixed w wild cards to address imbalances

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 @LynnStAmour: let’s start workshop selection process by identifying imbalances (stakeholder, region, etc) in top 72 scored props

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 MAG mtg, China: composition of top 72 workshops very problematic. Asia has 58.4% of global population, but only 20% of workshops.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 MAG mtg, China: Europe only has 16% of global population, but more than half of top 72 workshops are from Europe.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 MAG mtg, China: Regional representation of top 72 workshop proposals doesn't correspond to current global geopolitical map.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 MAG mtg, China: to have regional balance, if Europe submits same number of workshops, Asia would need to submit 1000 props next yr.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 China: This is not a world b4 WWI. Have impression the multistakeholder model has become a thin cover for European-dominated world.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 China: geographical equity & balance is overarching principle of UN. Whatever models u use, this principle should be respected 1st.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 China: current screening process for workshops deviates from UN principle of geographic equity & balance.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 China: suggests capping number of selected workshops coming from each region. e.g. 20 workshops max from Europe, 30 from Asia.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 @LynnStAmour: changing criteria for workshop selection at this late stage will raise more questions, discomfort in community.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 China: many of top 72 rated workshops r on #humanrights, gender. Should ask them to merge, so we make room for more props from Asia

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 China: IGF is chance 4 ppl from diff countries 2 present views. We r not coming 2 Geneva 2 b brainwashed by Euro-centric standards.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 Netherlands, re China comment re Eurocentric brainwashing: asks China 2 b more cooperative.
China: won't apologise; stands by words

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

#IGF2017 @LynnStAmour: we’re looking for a level of civil discourse here & we don’t quite have that fully yet. Let’s aim 4 that after lunch.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) June 13, 2017

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Two Charts: VC Investment (US) and the $74 Trillion Global Economy

 Source: Statista

Though growth is slowing, the internet still is the sector most profiting from the influx of venture capital in the U.S. In the fourth quarter of 2016 a total of $4.5 billion spread across 461 deals were invested in this sector. 

The World's $74 Trillion Global Economy in One Chart:

Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist

The latest GDP numbers from the World Bank were released February 1, 2017, and this visualization from HowMuch.net breaks them down to show each country's relative share of the global economy.

The full circle, known as a Voronoi Diagram, represents the entirety of the world's $74 trillion global economy in nominal terms. Meanwhile, each country’s segment is sized accordingly to their percentage of global GDP output. Continents are also grouped together and sorted by color.

Despite the discussions and focus on emerging economies in various forums, the four biggest economies in South America (Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia) produce only about 4% of global GDP, while Africa’s three biggest economies (South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria) produce no more than 1.5%.

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Interactive World Map of Sunrise Tweets

Sunrise around the world (via Twiiter)- Geotagged Tweets mentioning 'sunrise' in different languages, April 6, 2014, GMT


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How We Understand the World via the Internet

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"This map shows the global distribution of geo-located entities described in Freebase, a collaborative knowledge base that defines itself as “an open shared database of the world’s knowledge”. Freebase forms one of the key informational ingredients in Google’s Knowledge Graph. If you’ve ever looked at the side panel in Google’s search results page, which presents information about people, places, and events in response to a search query, then you’ve probably come into contact with data stored in Freebase.... Geographic content in Freebase is largely clustered in certain regions of the world. The United States accounts for over 45% of the overall number of place names in the collection, despite covering about 2% of the Earth, less than 7% of the land surface, and less than 5% of the world population, and about 10% of Internet users. This results in a US density of one Freebase place name for every 1500 people, and far more place names referring to Massachusetts than referring to China. A third of all place names are geo-located in Europe.... This stands in contrast to countries like China that account for less than 1% of the collection (with less than 4000 place names, and a density of only one place name for every 300,000 inhabitants). Most of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean are similarly underrepresented... Outside Europe and North America, only four countries (Australia, China, India, and Japan) are represented with more content than Antarctica (in part because the database contains descriptions of hundreds of Antarctic mountains and ranges).... Because Freebase is a core ingredient in the informational menu presented to us by the world’s most widely used search engine, these presences and absences have the potential to have a significant impact on how we understand, interact with, and create our world. Freebase may seem like a small corner of the Web, but the imbalances that we observe in it can have large reverberations through the broader information ecosystems accessed by billions of people."

Source: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, England (UK)


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